Sarah Marie

Is it worth it to remove gluten before they potentially do an endoscopy & biopsy? I thought I read it’s best to be eating gluten for 3 months prior to it. So hoping they have a cancellation and call us in sooner. 

Thanks so much for your thorough reply! I was able to schedule with the local pediatric gastroenterologist who specializes in celiac but we have to wait 3 months to see her. 

Hello!

I would appreciate help understanding my 17 year old daughter’s celiac panel.  Symptoms are general stomach discomfort, daily headaches (for years), fatigue. My husband is in process of being diagnosed as well. 

test results:

Demidiated Gliadin Abs, IgA - negative 

Demediated Gliadin Abs, IgG - negative 

tTG IGA - negative 

endometrial antibody IgA - negative 

tTG- igG - weak positive

Immunoglobulin A, Qn, serum - *low* 72 (range is 87-352)

vitamin D also very *low* at 21 (range 30-100)

From what I’ve read the combination of deficiencies in vit d and immunoglobulin A plus weak positive tTG-IgG can indicate Celiac disease.  Thoughts? 

The main factor we’d like a conclusive diagnosis for is to know how strict we need to be for cross contamination. It’s one thing to be gluten free but it’s a whole other level of carefulness if celiac. We also have 3 kids in the house who still eat gluten.  I appreciate your insight with all of this! Thank you! 

His Celiac panel was:

Deamidated Gliadin Abs, IgA    15    (Neg)

Deamidated Gliadin Abs, IgG    31    (flagged high moderate to strong positive)

t- Transglutaminase (tTG) IgA    4     (flagged high weak positive)

t-Transglutaminase (tTG) IgG     6     (flagged high weak positive)

Endomysial Antibody IgA                        (neg) 

Hello! I’m hoping for some insight on this. My husband was experiencing horrible GI symptoms after everything he ate for a few years. He went to a gastroenterologist and had a bunch of bloodwork and it came back positive for Celiac. They ordered an endoscopy and biopsies and those came back negative. The specialist basically said you’re fine and feel free to eat gluten. My husband cut out all gluten after the endoscopy and his symptoms completely stopped immediately (and haven’t returned for 2 months with gluten-free diet). It just doesn’t sit right with us that his bloodwork was positive and they are completely dismissing that because the biopsy was negative. Where do we go from here? A functional/naturopath? What a frustrating process! Any insight would be appreciated!